• Burnett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Gough, (Attorney at Law), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Higgins, (District Attorney’s Office for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, Benjamin Gephardt, (District Attorney’s Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Kingsland, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1640

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated sodomy and child molestation over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and claims of ineffective assistance

  • Campbell et al. v. Courtesy Ford, Inc., et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Law, Ernest Moran, (Law & Moran), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Warner Fox, Elliott Ream, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Timothy Mitchell, (Cruser Mitchell Novitz Sanchez Gaston & Zimet), Norcross, Diana Moore, (Cruser Mitchell Novitz Sanchez Gaston & Zimet), Peachtree Corners for other party.

    Case Number: A22A1739

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of employer, which did not bear vicarious liability for employee's negligent car accident

  • Wright v. Wright

    Publication Date: 2023-04-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Molly Sutter, (Georgia Legal Services Program), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Dodgen, (Attorney at Law), Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1586

    Court reverses judgment of contempt against a husband, finding that he had not willfully failed to make payments of alimony or other court-ordered expenses

  • The State v. Wood et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Peterkin, (Assistant District Attorney Meriwether County Courthouse), Greenville, John Cranford, Nathan Stewart, (Coweta County District Attorney’s Office), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Nestrud, (Coweta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Franklin, Darrell Donaldson, (The Pilgrim Law Group), Villa Rica, Alexandra Reynolds, (Office of the Public Defender Coweta Judicial Circuit), Carrollton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1453

    Court affirms suppression order over controlled substance evidence seized by officers who prolonged an investigation absent exigent circumstances

  • The State v. Walker

    Publication Date: 2023-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton Hayes, Sara Grainger, Michelle Dissman, (Cherokee County Solicitor-General’s Office), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Sessions, (The Sessions Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1623

    Court affirms dismissal of DUI and other charges against a defendant where the State failed to prove that the statute of limitations to bring the charges had bene extended

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  • Sanderwala, LLC v. Biles

    Publication Date: 2023-04-10
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Murphy, (Andrew T. Murphy LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Dickinson, (Dickinson & Willis), Monroe, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1371

    Court affirms dismissal of an appeal in a quiet title action because appellant failed to timely pay appellate costs

  • CPI-Phipps Limited Liability Company v. Billboard Corporation et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-10
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Antony Sanacory, Zachary Hall, Dorothea Ille, (Hudson Lambert Parrott Walker, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Simon Bloom, Adam Nugent, Sean Ryan, (Bloom Parham, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1285

    Court reverses summary judgment order in a commercial lease dispute and rules that circumstances do not show that landlord accepted tenant's surrender of the leased premises

  • Lucky Fortune, LLC v. Georgia Lottery Corp. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-07
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Kennedy, (Attorney at Law), Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Justyn Alioto, (Mills & Hoopes, LLC), Atlanta, Joseph Kim, (Georgia Lottery Corporation), Atlanta, Deltaone, LLC, Lawrenceville, Justyn Alioto, (Mills & Hoopes, LLC), Atlanta, Timothy Walls, (Mills & Hoopes, LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1643

    Time For Appealing Hearing Officer's Decision to Georgia Lottery Commission Chief Not Tolled by Motion For Reconsideration

  • Quantanilla-Solis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler Conklin, (Conklin Law Firm), Atlanta, Matthew Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Dane Uhelski, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1612

    Sufficient Evidence Presented to Corroborate Statutory Rape Conviction

  • Cardinale v. Westmoreland et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-07
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Cardinale, (Matthew Charles Esq. Inc.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Ashe, Matthew Sellers, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1678

    Court affirms in part and denies in part a series of orders addressing a private citizen's lawsuit against a city council under the Open Records and Open Meetings Acts